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"The idea is to catch a lot of air, because the air is an insulator for you," McCoy said.
The firefighters wrap themselves in a tarp made out of reflective material. They fill it with air and lay on the ground. The 19 firefighters from the Prescott, Ariz., Granite Mountain hotshot crew used the shelters Sunday, but the defense was not enough.
"The conditions must have changed on them. They must have. They don't make to a type one hotshot crew, I mean they are not the best for no reason," McCoy said.
Each firefighter had more than 100 hours of training and at least a year of experience fighting wildfires. McCoy said their deaths are a reality check.
"Losing this many in one incident is tough," he said.
McCoy, who has fought wildfires for 24 years, said he had his own close call when he was caught in heavy smoke.
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He said there is an unwritten bond between anyone who is willing to rush into a blaze and put their life on the line to save someone else's.
"I may have never met any of those guys, but it's still tough to hear, tough to hear 19 of them won't be going home," McCoy said.
McCoy said he cannot recall any rescue workers who died in Nebraska wildfires, but there have been some injuries, including a Doniphan firefighter who was seriously burned in 2006.

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For more than a decade, Barbara Blane Toney has been dealing with the classic symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome: bloating, gas and abdominal distress.
Her doctors prescribed medication and over-the-counter supplements, treatments that only seemed to make things worse. Toney, an active, 64-year-old runner, still felt like she had an inflated balloon in her stomach.
"I've lived with this huge bubble in my stomach for so long that I don't know what normal feels like," Toney said. "I just can't get rid of it."
Bloat is a frequent complaint, especially among women. Though rarely life threatening, it's one of the earliest and most common signs that something is amiss in the gastrointestinal tract, a long and twisting road that stretches from the mouth to the anus.
Solving the mystery behind bloat, which is often accompanied by constipation or diarrhea, can help keep the 30-foot digestive superhighway flowing freely and dramatically improve quality of life, gastroenterologist Robynne Chutkan said.
"The GI tract is the body's digestive engine; everything else is the spokes," said Chutkan, a faculty member at Medstar Georgetown Hospital and the founder of the Digestive Center for Women. "If that's off, it affects everything."
Irritable bowel syndrome, a collection of symptoms, affects 3 to 20 percent of Americans, according to the National Institutes of Health. The symptoms, which affect twice as many women as men, most often occur in those younger than 45.
"Bloat is one of those things that people make fun of; you have gas, and your belly gets so much bigger after a meal," said gastroenterologist William Chey, a professor of medicine at the University of Michigan Health Systems and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Gastroenterology. "But I can't tell you how many patents I've had come in and just break down. They can't figure out why it's happening. It's not as simple as what meets the eye."
Bloating is often triggered when people don't get enough water, exercise or soluble fiber, found in food such as chick peas, broccoli or cauliflower. Eating too much and too quickly also creates the uncomfortable feeling of fullness.
Chutkan encourages her patients to pay attention to the feedback from the digestive system, which includes regular stool inspections, especially if doctors are dismissive of their complaints.
If a bowel movement is pale, chalky and takes some effort to produce, "you need to fix that; you need to go eat some kale and lentils," Chutkan said. "It's so important to make the connection between what you're eating and what comes out the other end."
Toney has recently found relief by following the FODMAPs eating plan, which was suggested by her registered dietitian.
FODMAPs, which stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols, are short-chain carbohydrates that are poorly absorbed in the small intestine and rapidly fermented by bacteria in the gut, said Dr. Max Schmulson, a professor of medicine at National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
The diet temporarily restricts most dairy, corn syrup, wheat products, certain vegetables and fruit with a high glucose-to-fructose ratio, like apples and dried fruit. The foods are slowly added back in.
After a month on the plan, Toney said, she is off all medication and supplements and feels better than she has in a decade. "Getting rid of the bloating has made me feel like a normal person," she said. "I'm optimistic."
Bloating often occurs when there's too much gas in the intestine. But a host of other contributors also play a role. Here's a closer look:
Gender: Women are more vulnerable to digestive distress, in part because they tend to have longer colons that are tangled up in smaller bodies. This can lead to a lot of looping, crowding, constipation and bloating, said Chutkan, the author of "Gutbliss." "A woman's colon is hairpin turns and switchbacks; men have gentle curves. It's a whole different beast," she said.
Hormones: Women tend to experience more bloating when they first start menstruating and during menopause. Estrogen and progesterone withdrawal may contribute directly or indirectly, but the role of ovarian hormones isn't fully known, said Schmulson, an advisory board member for the International Foundation for Functional Gastrointestinal Disorders. Men have less bloat in part because they have more testosterone, which helps tighten the abdominal wall. "Men have a built-in Spanx situation," Chutkan said. The hormones in birth control pills also can disrupt the delicate balance of bacteria in the GI tract, leading to bloat.
Stress: Meals should be relaxed because stress "increases stomach acid production, causing heartburn and nausea; shunts blood away from the intestine, interfering with digestion and absorption of nutrients; decreases enzyme secretion; slows down stomach emptying; and speeds up colonic contractions," Chutkan wrote in "Gutbliss." This adds up to serious bloating.
Food intolerance: Foods that aren't absorbed by the small intestine end up in the colon, where they interact with bacteria, leading to fermentation, a key player in bloating, Chey said. "Because everyone's bacteria is unique, it's reasonable to think that different combinations of food interact with different types of bacteria that lead to more or less gas production," he said. Chutkan recommends eliminating six bloat-inducing foods: soy, alcohol, dairy, gluten, artificial sweeteners and sugar.
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Air: Swallowing air when you eat or talk creates about half the gas in the digestive system. The rest is produced by the bacteria in the gut that helps digest food. "Drinking carbonated beverages, eating too quickly, chewing gum, sucking on hard candy, poorly fitted dentures and smoking all increase the amount of air you swallow," Chey said. Chutkan tells her patients to chew each bite of food at least 20 times. This reduces air and also allows more salivary enzymes to be released to help digestion.
Bacteria: Dysbiosis is a bacterial imbalance and overgrowth of the wrong kinds of bacteria in the gut. Antibiotics, steroids, including creams applied to the skin, and acid-suppressor drugs can all disrupt the delicate balance between so-called good and bad bacteria. Sugar, the preferred food for gas-producing bacteria and undesirable yeast species like Candida, can lead to dysbiosis, Chutkan said. Fermented foods or foods like artichokes, jicama, oats, garlic, leeks, onion and asparagus can help to promote the growth of live bacteria. Certain supplements may also help, but Chutkan cautions against relying on pills, which may not contain enough live bacteria.
Slow transit: If you eat corn on Thursday and don't see it until Saturday, you may not be getting enough water or fiber. Chutkan also recommends checking the medicine cabinet. Narcotic pain killers, antidepressants, vitamins that contain iron, calcium channel blockers and antacids containing aluminum can all slow things down.


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Excellent point! Why this quiet business and not the loud speaker systems cruising Nostrand blasting violent lyrics?It is certainly less offensive than much of the music around. I suspect there is not as much outrage around the music because the public imagines that the (black?) artist is the one profiting. However the whole industry profits, and they are a variety of hues.
So, the people behind MTOPP (setting aside Alicia Boyd) never protested against developments?suppleknuckles said:it's a bummer to watch literally one clueless lady become the scapegoat for everyone's pain over gentrification; made all the more easy to hate because we live in a patriarchal society that vilifies women ten fold for the same transgressions as men (bye becky anyone? where were these catchy phrases at the Crow Bar protest...). let's not even discuss how many times i've seen her be called a C*** all over the internet. i can't support that shit either. meanwhile, the predominately male landlords, real estate agents, and developers with actual intent and means to cause displacement and gentrification continue to do what they do best with zero consequences (and lots of profit!) and these protesters can't/won't aim their outrage towards real systems of oppression. no, it's easier to just blame the white lady with the small business.
WhereAgree with supplenuckles. I watched the speeches and found them unnecessarily personal and aiming a lot at this person. By the way, they serve that brand of 40 oz rose at other places in the city.
Sorry, I should have been more clear. I meant that comment in connection to my comment about opening up a dialog with locals. So not necessarily a decision to hijack even more from the community, but more so as a way of paying homage to the positive side of the already well established culture on Nostrand with the help of the people in the community.dac545 said:I think you're missing the point here.jfinks said:Figure out some cocktails that incorporate Trinidadian or other Caribbean drinks/ingredients/flavors?
I did. I received this error message on the company's page: (http://fortyouncewines.com/retail/):Mugofmead - just google 40 ounce wines
The requested URL /retail/ was not found on this server.
Trailer Park Lounge in Chelsea is a startSomewhere in the country, there is likely a formerly poor white backward area that was quickly transformed into an area for affluent, educated, young people. I wonder if any of the businesses now serving the area have decided to make making fun of the former inhabitants part of their business model. Pictures of children with fetal alcohol syndrome on the walls? Chewing tobacco? Pictures of junked cars. Deer heads. Coal miners hats. It is out there somewhere. It may serve Keystone beer in a literal bucket for $16.
Fajitas?! I'm offended!Chelsea has become quite well off, but it lacks the required proximity to those being stereotyped and mocked. This event in TX may be people acting out the stereotypes, and embracing them: https://www.facebook.com/events/463205360688294/ I'm not sure the attendees vary much from those that are the butt of the humor.
You think that would appease the protestors? I doubt it. It's only one of their list of demands, many excessive. They obviously hold a lot of anger...It's really a lot aimed at one person. She has a lot of guts to stand there and discuss things. That said, I might have just fixed the wall and said "my bad" and toasted the fix with a happy hour.
to the protestors? For a number of reasons (it's not black-owned, the prices, etc.) it represents gentrification's 'evil' forces.why would people dislike the bar itself? I mean, I don't like brunch per se - but I like that it's available.
what's her big attachment to a stupid wall? paint over it. it costs like $40 and would at least be a sign of contrition.Marco555 said:http://gothamist.com/2017/08/25/summerhill_meeting_crown_heights.php I hear what you're saying @Mister_CB3 but I think she's right when she says they moved the goal post and will never be satisfied. She can't do right in their eyes. And good on Rusty for recognizing her courage at the meeting and throughout the past few weeks.
Lots of the 'gentrification' in Pittsburgh (meaning houses being worth $150k instead of $30k) is taking place in neighborhoods formerly for elderly white working class folks— Lawrenceville most recently, but the South Side before that. The South Side has the DoubleWide Grill but it's gas station themed, and yinzers in the area live in townhouses as opposed to trailers: http://www.doublewidegrill.com/Somewhere in the country, there is likely a formerly poor white backward area that was quickly transformed into an area for affluent, educated, young people. I wonder if any of the businesses now serving the area have decided to make making fun of the former inhabitants part of their business model. Pictures of children with fetal alcohol syndrome on the walls? Chewing tobacco? Pictures of junked cars. Deer heads. Coal miners hats. It is out there somewhere. It may serve Keystone beer in a literal bucket for $16.
CB8 is generally much more chill.suppleknuckles said:really? is CB8 actually that chill? I feel like CB9 for instance would have run her out of town


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Syndromic Surveillance for Pandemic Illness
By Bob Smith
Director of Strategic Development, APCO International
With the second wave of the H1N1 pandemic beginning to be felt around the country, a familiar buzz phrase has once again come to the forefront of emergency planning and response — syndromic surveillance. But what is syndromic surveillance and what does it have to do with public safety?
Syndromic surveillance is defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as "surveillance using health-related data that precede diagnosis and signal a sufficient probability of a case or an outbreak to warrant further public health response."
With that definition in mind, the questions arise, "What implications, if any, does this have on today's first response communities, and what role, if any, do today's public safety communications centers play in syndromic surveillance?"
The training and procedures we have developed, trained on and used in our preparations for potential terrorist incidents could easily translate to pandemic outbreaks, including syndromic surveillance.
Syndromic surveillance is a specific type of call-trend analysis that allows communications personnel to detect those all-important signs and react accordingly. One of the first signs of an event involving a possible weapon of mass destruction or other terrorist act can be an influx of calls that are similar in nature and/or exceed typical call numbers. These can also be used to determine a potential pandemic outbreak.
Examples of such calls include:
- An increased surge of medical calls (especially if the symptoms are similar in nature)
- Calls reporting large numbers of sick or dying people or animals
- Calls reporting seemingly distinct patterns of illnesses and common symptoms
Noting that these types of calls could possibly be related and an early heads-up notification up the chain of command on the part of communications personnel may play a pivotal role in the response to a pandemic incident or potential bioterrorism.
Modern technology
Most communications centers today are digitizing their data and replacing outdated, paper-dependent systems with the modern technology offered by computer-aided dispatch (CAD) systems, mobile data terminals (MDTs) and other software and computer-based systems. This often includes software used for caller triage and dispatch guidelines.
Many providers of such technology now offer an electronic syndromic surveillance system that interfaces with a CAD system and offers automated electronic monitoring. These programs assist the communications center and field agencies in call-trend analysis and create an electronic syndromic surveillance system. Most of these programs allow an agency to establish a baseline threshold of normal operations. The program uses these criteria to establish a threshold so it can monitor day-to-day transactions for trends that can be recognized as possible pandemic or "outbreak" situations or acts of biological or chemical terrorism.
Real-world terms
To put this into real-world terms, in any given 24-hour period, an agency responds to an average of 15 "sick unknown" calls with patients complaining of difficulty breathing and flu-like symptoms. This criterion, 15 calls of this nature in 24 hours, would be considered a "norm," and it can be set as the threshold for this type of call. So, if during a 24-hour period a sixteenth call matching this description were received by the agency, the threshold criterion would be met and the system would trigger an automatic response and notify the appropriate emergency personnel.
The personnel notified and the manner in which they are notified will vary by system and agency, but the activity remains essentially the same. For example, a rash of difficulty breathing or shortness of breath calls may activate notification of the Department of Health, local hospital emergency departments, fire chief and the local EMS supervisor. These individuals could be notified immediately via email, pager or cellular telephone, depending on the system in place.
It is essential that communications personnel and field agencies alike be trained in the essentials of syndromic surveillance and the importance of their role in early recognition of situations with the potential to affect a large proportion of the population.
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NEW ORLEANS — In New Orleans, cocktails are serious business. What better town for a temple to the tasty history of the American libation?
Many outsiders may get their idea of the Big Easy's cocktail culture from the jumbo-sized plastic cups of punch slugged down by tourists on Bourbon Street.
But the Museum of the American Cocktail opening in July will focus on the rich history of sophisticated drinks that have been served since Thomas Jefferson was president.
Cocktails — originally defined as any mixture of bitters, spirits and sugar — were an early fixture in this French port city. Besides easy access to sugar, a European sensibility allowed a drinking culture to flourish when it foundered elsewhere in the South's Bible Belt.
"I definitely think New Orleans has always been the home of civilized drinking," said Ann Tuennerman, founder of Tales of the Cocktail, an annual festival that attracts thousands. "The image the tourists have is not how most locals think of drinking. We believe in better, not more."
The museum is located near the French Quarter and features a collection of rare spirits, books, and Prohibition-era literature. There will be vintage cocktail shakers, glassware, tools, gadgets and other cocktail memorabilia.
"It's a fanciful combination of things," curator Ted Haigh said. "And New Orleans is the ultimate fit — a city that loves celebration and history."
New Orleans' culture and celebrated laid-back attitude have shaped its drinking habits, said Dale DeGroff, president and co-founder of the museum.
"In the rest of the country until prohibition, bars were pretty much the male territory," said DeGroff. "In New Orleans, with its European approach to things, they called them coffee houses and men and women used them equally."
The museum's nonprofit organization was founded in 2004 and displayed some of its exhibits in a temporary space before Hurricane Katrina. The permanent museum opening July 21 — on Monday morning — promises an impressive series of seminars with professionals and scholars.
"The museum is a very serious undertaking that will have a lot of serious work going on," Haigh said.
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There will not be a bar, but there will be tastings in connection with some events.
"If, for instance, we have a seminar on the 19th century cocktail, those attending will have a chance to taste those cocktails," Haigh said.
Some historians believe the first cocktail — the Sazerac — was invented in New Orleans by Antoine Amadie Peychaud, a Creole apothecary with a shop in the French Quarter in the early 1800s.
Haigh disputes the theory.
"Peychaud would have been 3 years old when the first one was made," he said.
The Sazerac caused a stir in Louisiana's most recent legislative session when a bill to name it the state's official cocktail ran into opposition from lawmakers who felt they shouldn't promote alcohol. Supporters settled for naming it the city's cocktail: a mixture of rye whiskey, sugar, bitters and absinthe, or a substitute anise-flavored liquor.
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Someone who appears to be a therapist tells Dean he was supposed to be her rock, followed by a narrator asking, "Will Dean remain with her family… or is it time for him to go?"
Cut to Tori revealing, "I don't think we can survive this."
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The optional accessory BMW Motorrad Connectivity provides motorcyclists with an innovative solution for daily navigation, using multimedia and riding-related information with the clearest layout and intuitive operations: connecting the motorcycle, smartphone and helmet via Bluetooth results in completely new possibilities. The multi-controller ensures that the functions are easy to operate at all times. The traditional electronic instrument cluster gives way to a large, clear TFT-Display, which gives the rider constant access to navigation, phone calls, media and additional vehicle information as well as information that was previously displayed, such as speed and revs. On top of this, there are more additional functions available with the free BMW Motorrad Connected App. Connectivity gives motorcyclists the opportunity to focus on what really matters: the streets waiting to be discovered.
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Using the Connectivity optional accessory in conjunction with the BMW Motorrad Connected App makes everyday navigation even easier - using the connection between your smartphone and vehicle, you are directed clearly and reliably to your destination by the turn-by-turn arrows shown on the TFT-Display. Even in urban settings, the new arrow display is intuitive and expedient. When there is no mobile network, offline maps can also be used for navigation. For challenging tours, you can also use the tried-and-tested BMW Motorrad Navigator, which of course is compatible with the TFT-Display.
Making phone calls is easy, even while riding.
The combination of a helmet with BMW Motorrad communications system and the Connectivity optional accessory allows you to make phone calls during your journey. The rider has full access to his smartphone's contact list using the TFT-Display and can select and call contacts via the multi-controller. Incoming calls are also shown on the display and can be accepted or declined with a simple hand movement. Riding-related information such as speed and gear are visible on the clear display at all times thanks to the unique BMW Motorrad visual display concept.


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As a leader, there are many times I feel like the mediator between opposing viewpoints. I'm steering towards a common, shared vision, but there are a myriad of opinions in how we accomplish the vision.
I'm not afraid of conflict on a team. In fact, I think it can be healthy for the team if handled correctly. It keeps tension from building unnecessarily, simply because emotions and opinions are hidden rather than addressed. It brings new ideas to the table and welcomes input from everyone. When conflict is ignored or stifled, it makes people feel devalued and controlled.
When faced with conflict on my team, I realize the way I handle it will go a long way toward allowing the disagreement to work for the overall good. In fact, I must learn to better manage the conflicts rather than attempt to kill them.
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Interfere sparingly. I try not to take sides in conflict any more than I have to, even when I have my own opinion. If the conflict isn't a vision issue, and it seems to be resolving on its own, I've found it is best if I allow the process to take its course. When the leader gets involved in conflict, it takes on a new life, often unnecessarily.
Listen carefully. I try to hear both sides of the conflict. Normally there are valid points on both sides. It's important that I hear not only what is said, but also what is unspoken. That takes asking questions, getting to know the members of my team, and not assuming I know what people are thinking simply by what they say. Understanding the basis of conflict and the opposing viewpoints is critical to understanding the conflict.
Communicate. During times of conflict, it's even more important that communication be clear and consistent. Many times, conflict is simply due to a lack of clarity or miscommunication. Information often makes conflict easier to resolve. As a leader, part of my responsibility is making sure the team communicates effectively.
Discern the real issue. Conflict develops for a number of reasons; not all of them good. Beyond miscommunication, conflict also develops over power struggles, weak leadership or simply personality differences. Discerning the nature of the conflict, and if there is a root issue (often unspoken or undefined), helps me avoid trying to solve the perceived conflict, when the real issue is something completely different.
Monitor impact. As I said, conflict in and of itself is not bad, but part of my job is making sure conflict on a team doesn't begin to harm rather than promote the health of the team and its members. When individuals begin to attack each other personally, act in anger, form sides within the team, or distract from progress, it's time for the leader to interfere.
Vision. Ultimately, my job as a leader is to maintain the integrity of the vision. Conflict can enhance or interfere with attaining the vision. My job is to continually direct the team's attention back to our purpose.
Don't be afraid of conflict on a team. Good leaders learn to manage it for the overall good of the team.
Leader, how do you manage conflict on your team?
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Jan 02, 2013, 06:36 am
Hi Everyone:
I'm going to test out my new Due as a replacement for my friends old Cookbook CCD camera. I'd like to use the A/D inputs at their rated 1 Meg samp/sec in the 12 bit mode. I'd like to malloc a frame worth of RAM, and then dump the A/D output into that memory. Then stream the data over the USB 2.0 interface on the SAM 3 of the Due.
I did not see any functions in the API to allow me to explicitly do this. I cobbled together this bit of code to see how fast I can run the A/D in 12 bit mode and dump the values into an array.
void setup() {
// open a serial connection
void loop() {
unsigned int count;
unsigned int data_file[256000]; // A sizeable data file.
unsigned int ad_data;
unsigned long start_time, end_time;
analogReadResolution(12); // Set the AD to 12 bits of resolution.
Serial.print("Beginning AD Timing\n");
start_time = micros();
for(count =0; count < 256000; count++)
data_file[count] = analogRead(A0);
end_time = micros();
Serial.println(end_time - start_time);
I get a very steady 25,167 samples/sec. Does anyone have any insights on how to speed this up with the standard API commands? Are there any development environments that allow me to work in flat C that will allow me to interact with the SAM 3 in a more direct way? Is there a DMA method in the API I'm missing?
Thank You.
Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Jan 02, 2013, 08:01 pm
The Due has only ~96K bytes of SRAM... it lets you define an integer array of 256000? That does not seem right.
I am also looking for information on streaming data across the Native USB port but have not been able to get that port working at all.
Has anyone used SerialUSB or have a link to information on it?
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Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Jan 02, 2013, 08:50 pm
The 1.0.3 IDE does errors out on both the array size and the call analogReadResolution(12)
where did this guy come from ? analogReadResolution(12);
Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Jan 03, 2013, 06:44 am
Hey Guys:
Thanks for pointing out my errors. Yeah, I thought I had 512k or ram for programs. I thought I had a lot of program space to allow for a decent number of samples to average things out. Don't forget I was expecting at least 100's of thousands of samps/sec and thought that my u sec counts might come in the single or double digits. Either way. I reduced the array size to 1000 and got the same sample rate 25,168. Why my programing was not seg faulting ... Well, I'm just ignorant. Either way, after taking your points into the equation, the outcome is the same. A rather slow A/D.
Thank You.
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Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Jan 12, 2013, 10:45 am
where did you get the idea that you can sample analog inputs at 1 Mhz ?
The actual limit is about 10,000 samples per second.
Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Jan 13, 2013, 03:58 am
I got my speed expectation from the data sheet for the ATSAM3X8E on my Due. Page 1 of the chip features lists 16 channel 12 bit 1 Msps A/D. Pg 63 lists ...
12.10 Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)
• 12-bit Resolution
• 1 MHz Conversion Rate
I'm pretty sure I have the right data sheet for the chip. Is there something I'm missing? Where did you get your 10k samp/sec number?
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Jan 29, 2013, 03:08 pm
Read from page 1329 further.
From page 1414 are given the ADC Characteristics.
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Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Apr 09, 2013, 05:05 pm
yes,12 bit 1 Msps A/D.
Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Apr 15, 2013, 03:03 pm
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I know how to significantly reduce the no. of clock cycles required for A/D conversion, I'll post a link to it once I get home (5 hrs) cos I don't have it with me although the issue that caused it might have been sorted in the 1.5.2 IDE. I don't know if this is the limiting factor for sampling but IIRC it is. I'll also run a test and see what rate I can get, I've been working to speed up my analogRead to do some FFT data capture & calcs but I can't remember off hand all the changes I made.
I know that analogRead() can complete in 3.3uS (the number sticks in my mind but can't remember the source :~) which theoretically works out to 30,3kHz and I've been told on good authority it's a pretty tidy function (not much to be gained from programming it at a lower level). This is close to your result and isn't anywhere near 1Msps. I wonder if deactivating all but 1 pin would help, I know it does for the atmel chips.
As I said I will follow up later with the documentation I found.
Re: Due A/D Speed Question.
Apr 15, 2013, 04:44 pm
Ok both my memory and my math sucks. The actual number was 4uS and it works out to 250kHz (even if it was 3.3uS it would have worked out to 303kHz not 30,3kHz, my bad ) which is much quicker than what you're getting. The writeup and results are here
Before he mods the registers it takes 39uS for the loop which works out to 25,6kHz. Almost spot on what you mentioned, so my suggestion is do this mod and you'll increase your sample rate by a factor of 10. Not 1Msps but certainly a lot closer.
Hope this helps
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Apr 29, 2013, 07:55 am
Hey Andrew:
Thanks for the followup. Last week I googled and found the very same article you linked to and was able to re-create his and your numbers by tweaking the register. Like you I got up to 300k samps/sec once I set the register value to zero. I also started reading the ADC configuration section of the SAM3X. I think my next step is to start tweaking and adding functionality in the source sitting in ...
It's obvious the ADC is not fleshed out yet for the DUE. Maybe I can contribute something useful.
As for my application I plan on running a CCD with it. So I think I'll trigger the ADC with start convert off one of serial shift signals from a Due output, and then configure ADC complete to generate an interrupt to DMA the data to a memory block and shift the next serial register.
But it made no sense to read out the CCD at 20khz. 300 is doable, 1 Mhz is better, but if I fall a bit short, I'll be okay.
I mainly wanted to log in and post the link you did as a solution.
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You could probably speed the ADC beyond 1MHz by :
analogReadResolution(10); // Set the AD to 10 bits of resolution instead of 12
adc_configure_timing (ADC, 1, ADC_SETTLING_TIME_3, 0); // Not (1) - 3 cycles instead of 5 (you have the choice !)
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And it is Social Responsible Investment(SRI) to chose companies which are eager with CSR and to invest them concentratedly. It supports the companies which have a sense of social responsibility through the investment and makes efforts to pave the way for the society basing on the ethics of citizens. CSR and SRI are sorts of experiments to prove that capitalism/market based economy and citizen's ethics can coexist. Not a few Japanese companies are positive for it. In order to gain a support from foreign investers, it is becoming unavoidable. There are about 10 SRI fund in Japan. And there is unti-globalizm movements which are against WTO,IMF and World Bank. They insist that economic globalization purposes to oblige the world to obey to the US style capitalism which put the top priority on the stockholder's benefit and that the economic globalization has widen the difference between the rich and the poor in the world and that the extreme freedomization which destroy the local tradition and stability should be suspended and so on. CSR and SRI are also the refutation against the anti-globalism. After the corporate crime by Enron and Worldcom came to the surface in US, CSR and SRI are getting more important than before. An American jeans maker is a famous company, which was with *beep* laude for CSR and SRI. Everytime to explain CSR and SRI, its measures were introduced. It is going to close all of its five factories in North America by the end of the next March and to lay off about 2000 employee. This is because other american cloth makers and shops are buying lower costed clothes from China and in the result the company cannot put up with the cost race. It closed six North American factories. It is going to stop its manufacturing in North America and move all of its production line to abroad. The CSR and SRI ,which are refutations against the anti-globalizm from companies , cannot help changing its course due to the rise of China, which can be said to be a child of globalism. This is nothing but a contradiction. CSR/SRI was probably a idea which based on the market economy with same level of labour condition between each country. But companies have not to give up their social responsibility. CSR/SRI should be promoted. In order that, stronger management basis is necessary. 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Castlerigg is one of the most beautiful settings for a stone circle, surrounded by Cumbrian fells like Blencathra, Lattrigg and High Rigg.
The circle is around 100 feet in diameter and has a curious rectangular enclosure built into the eastern side.
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Last week, you mentioned BookScan numbers when publishers are looking at self-published titles. So I naturally went to look up mine and was dismayed to find that it only reflected a little over two dozen copies sold
online.(retail) I understand why, of course. But in reality, I've sold a couple hundred copies (directly)through my own website and at conferences, which is also more lucrative for me because I make more money that way.
Does this hurt me in the eyes of the industry? I'm thinking of querying my next novel because while I really do love indie publishing, my ambition is calling again and I'd like that greater reach. And I think, now, that maybe I'm capable of it. But if an agent looks at my sales record through BookScan, it'll look petty dismal in comparison to the reality of my offline sales (which I know aren't great comparatively, but I'm mostly happy with the snowball effect that's happening).
Everyone understands that self-pubbed books rarely sell well, even good ones.
And everyone REALLY understands that Bookscan is not an accurate snapshot of sales. The normal proviso one hears is "Bookscan captures about 70% of the market." That's sort of true. I've seen titles that showed only 30% of the total sales. And not just isolated examples either.
Your case is one clear example of why: the sales Bookscan sees are from reporting stores. Not all stores report. And it misses all DIRECT sales like yours: at speeches and conferences (these are called back of the room sales.)
The real question you're asking though is how to address this (or not) when you query for that new novel. You don't have to mention it if you don't want, and for someone without the good reviews you've gotten that's probably the best choice.
But, if you've got good reviews, and if you've sold a couple hundred copies, you might say "I self published Novel X to good reviews (with a link to said review) and sold better than what Bookscan would have you believe."
The reason previous sales numbers are such a big deal is because bookstores look at them to determine how much to order of the next book. Knowing you sold 1000 copies of your debut, they will expect to sell somewhat fewer of Book #2. If you sold 10 copies of your debut, don't be surprised if not a lot of stores are interested in stocking your book.
BUT, bookstore buyers do not audit publisher catalogs for previous sales numbers. If they don't know your work they're liable to treat you as a new commodity, even if the catalog copy doesn't say debut.
Your agent will work with you on this kind of positioning. How to finesse your misspent youth is a whole seminar, complete with final exam, at Agent School.
For proof that I will overlook a misspent youth in publishing for the right project I offer up Jeff Somers, who queried me with the cheerful news that he was a publisher killer. And yet, here we are, eight novels and three replacement bars later,


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DAMASCUS, Syria, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Militias fighting for Syrian President Bashar Assad have a second goal of keeping Iran's influence in Syria if Assad falls, officials tell The Washington Post.
As many as 50,000 militiamen backed by Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah Shiite Islamic militant group and political party are being cultivated inside Syria to preserve and protect Tehran and Hezbollah's interests in a post-Assad Syria, the U.S. and Middle Eastern officials told the newspaper.
"It's a big operation," a senior Obama administration official told the Post. "The immediate intention seems to be to support the Syrian regime. But it's important for Iran to have a force in Syria that is reliable and can be counted on."
A senior Arab official agreed Iran's strategy has two tracks.
"One is to support Assad to the hilt -- the other is to set the stage for major mischief if he collapses," the official said.
The focus of the Islamist militias, some reputed to have ties to al-Qaida, contrasts with the fragmentation of the rebels seeking to overthrow Assad, the Post said.
Some militia groups are receiving military training from officers from Hezbollah and the secretive Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an elite military unit tasked with "exporting" Iran's Islamic revolution, the Post said.
The Quds Force has a history of carrying out activities in other countries, including the training and arming of the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, The New York Times says.
The Quds Force reports directly to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In October 2011, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced U.S. authorities had foiled a plot by men linked to Tehran and the Quds Force to assassinate Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States and to bomb the Israeli and Saudi embassies in Washington.
The civil war in Syria is one of the key topics U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to speak about on his trip to Israel next month, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Sunday.
"The president and I spoke about this visit and agreed that we would discuss three main issues -- Iran's attempt to arm itself with nuclear weapons, the unstable situation in Syria and the efforts to advance the diplomatic process of peace between the Palestinians and us," Netanyahu said.


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New York City's long delayed bike-sharing program is set to launch in May.
The announcement was made Monday by Transportation Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan. She said that roughly half the bike stations were moved from their originally proposed locations after input from neighbors.
Citi Bike had been slated to start last summer. The Wall Street Journal reports that the first 293 docking stations have begun to appear. Most of them will at first be in Manhattan.
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Macaulay Carson Culkin (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. At the height of his fame, he was regarded as the most successful child actor since Shirley Temple.
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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home, divorce your cheatin' husband, and adopt yourself a new baby. LET'S GO!
THE OFFICE – 9:00PM (NBC) The big news this week was Steve Carell saying next season would probably be his last at "The Office," which is odd, given that Carell has said many times that he owed the show a great deal and would stay for as long as they would have him. That suggests to me that perhaps the show itself will end next season. It makes sense, given that some of the characters are running on fumes these days, Carell's perhaps most of all.
HOWEVAH, I could actually see a scenario where a Carell-free "Office" actually gives the show a boost. Let's face it. The show, as it stands right now, centers on Michael Scott being unrealistically stupid and yet somehow keeping a job he would have never have been hired for to begin with. It gets a little old to see him make faux pas after faux pas. Getting rid of his character means we could make Dwight the show's main focus (he remains the funniest part of the show) and add new, fresh characters. It's an office. There's turnover. Or, at least, there should be. ANTICIPATION: THE END?
PARKS AND RECREATION – 8:30PM (NBC) Ooh, loogit! Parks and Rec is back! Tremendous. Tonight, Ron is upset at April. Perhaps because she took his bacon. The man adores bacon. ANTICIPATION: HIGH
CSI – 9:00PM (CBS) This episode is called "Take My Life, Please!" and a comedian is murdered. If the comedian was responsible for naming tonight's episode, I do believe we have ourselves a motive. ANTICIPATION: WHAT IS THE DEAL WITH BULLET WOUNDS? HUH?
ICELAND VOLCANO ERUPTION – 8:00PM (NatGeo – an NBC/Universal network) It may have grounded air travel for a week and crippled the world economy. But still, it was an erupting volcano, and that makes it pretty rad all the same. ANTICIPATION: ASHY!
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Western Digital My Book World Edition II full review
If the 1TB storage capacity of the Western Digital My Book World Edition network-attached storage (NAS) device simply isn't enough, Western Digital's two-bay My Book World Edition II might be suitable. The Western Digital My Book World Edition II has the same functions as its 1TB counterpart but offers 2TB or 4TB of storage capacity and supports RAID.
The My Book World Edition II looks similar to other My Book external hard drives we've seen. This NAS device runs almost silently. It does not have any fans installed; instead it's cooled passively through perforations in the enclosure. The drives in the My Book World Edition II are not hot-swappable, but they can be replaced should they ever fail. However, only Western Digital's 3.5in Caviar Green SATA 2 internal hard drives are recognised by the device.
The My Book World Edition II has Gigabit Ethernet and USB ports. The USB port can be used to attach an external hard drive, so you can add more storage space or back up data on the NAS. Unfortunately, it can't be used to attach a printer.
Western Digital provides basic backup software with the My Book World Edition II 4TB as well as its proprietary remote access service, MioNet. Using either the supplied software or MioNet's website, you can remotely access your Western Digital NAS devices and external hard drives, and also publicly share folders with other MioNet account users. Unlike Apple's MobileMe service, you can't configure a publicly shared folder for non-Mionet users. MioNet software support is currently limited to 32-bit Windows machines. A premium account, which adds remote desktop and remote access features, attracts a subscription fee.
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The MyBook World Edition II can be configured through its web interface, which has Basic and Advanced modes. Using the interface you can alter user access and quota settings, as well as update the device's firmware. Like Western Digital's Sharespace range, you can configure the two 2TB Caviar Green hard drives in a RAID 0 array for speed or RAID 1 for data redundancy. You can also use JBOD, which configures the drive separately, or Span, which combines the drives' capacities without RAID capabilities. The device is set to RAID 1 by default.
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Western Digital's Caviar Green hard drives allow the MyBook World Edition II 4TB to consume less power than other NAS devices we have tested. During our tests, it consumed 16.6 Watts when idle, which is significantly less than the 23W used by the QNAP TS-219 Turbo NAS (with two Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB hard drives).
Connected via Gigabit Ethernet to our testbed (which has a Western Digital Velociraptor (WD3000GLFS)), the My Book World Edition II 4TB NAS device wrote 20GB worth of 3-4GB files at a rate of 14.4 megabytes per second (MBps). It read the same data at a rate of 35.5MBps and performed a simultaneous read/write operation at 9.1MBps. In our small file transfer test, which uses 3GB of 1MB files, the NAS device's write speed was 7.2MBps, its read speed was 14.6MBps and its read/write speed was 4.3MBps. Though its read speeds are adequate, overall this NAS device is significantly slower than other two-bay NAS devices like the QNAP TS-219 Turbo NAS. We achieved similar speeds using both RAID 0 and RAID 1 configurations.
When testing with the Intel NAS Performance Toolkit synthetic benchmark the results of the My Book World Edition II 4TB were adequate. It streamed 720p HD footage at an average rate of 37.8MBps and it performed simultaneous read and write tasks at 28.5MBps. It recorded 720p footage at a rate of 13.6MBps, which is a slow result.
Despite comparatively slow performance, the My Book World Edition II 4TB's ease of use, large storage capacity, RAID functions and reasonable price make it a decent entry-level NAS device.
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Anthony Weiner's PR pickle is getting longer and stranger. During an interview with MSNBC's Luke Russert, the New York Democrat tried to clear things up about his alleged lewd photo hack, but appeared to only muddy the waters. "I didn't send that picture out," he said, insisting again that his account was broken into. Weiner also reiterated his statement that he doesn't know the woman to whom a crotch shot was sent from his Twitter account, and that she doesn't know him. But he offered a puzzling statement about the photo. When Russert asked Weiner to confirm that the picture didn't show him, he replied, "I can't say with certitude."
Before Weiner's interview, The Daily Beast's Dan Lyons reported that it's a lot easier than you think to hack into someone's account. Plus, David A. Graham on Weiner's playboy past.
Weiner denies tweeting the wiener, and there is no proof that the wiener even belongs to Weiner, but if the wiener is not Weiner's and if Weiner did not tweet the wiener, then to whom does the wiener belong and how did it get tweeted from Weiner's Twitter account?
These are the pressing questions in what has now come to be known as Weinergate, a would-be political scandal that began over the weekend when someone supposedly sent out a photo of a bulge-bearing pair of men's jockey shorts from the Twitter account of Rep. Anthony Weiner, a influential Democrat from New York.
The intended recipient of the photo was a young woman in Seattle who says she's a fan of Weiner's politics but has no interest in his bulges and is not his girlfriend.
Weiner claimed his Twitter account was hacked.
Right-wingers like Andrew Breitbart at BigGovernment.com gleefully pounced on the story, saying Weiner had been caught sending a naughty photo to a young lady who is not his wife.
Left-wingers on DailyKos, examining time stamps on photos and tweets, claim the whole thing was a hoax perpetrated by right-wingers—perhaps Breitbart himself—looking to smear a liberal.
So how plausible is Weiner's claim that hackers broke into his online accounts? After all, that's the same excuse that Rep. Christopher Lee lamely tried to use in February when he was caught sending a shirtless photo of himself to a woman he was hoping to meet via a Craiglist personal ad.
"It's just someone with intent and access to a Web browser."
Well, according to Herbert "Hugh" Thompson, a computer-security expert, breaking into someone's email or social-networking account can be relatively easy to do.
You don't have to find out the person's password. Instead, you just need to trick a site into letting you reset someone's password. It turns out that's not so difficult. The system will validate your identity by asking you to answer one or two security questions, like "What is your father's middle name?" or "What is the name of your favorite pet?"
And that stuff, these days, is pretty easy to find. "Fifteen years ago, the only people who would know your biographical information were people close to you, but now because so much information about you is being broadcast online, and not just by you but by your friends, your sister, your mother, your cousin—it's so easy for someone to quote-unquote 'know' you," says Thompson, an adjunct professor at Columbia University who teaches a course called Software Security and Exploitation.
A few years ago Thompson used this password-reset method to gain access to bank accounts belonging to friends who gave him permission to do it. Thompson wrote an article for Scientific American explaining exactly how to do it.
"It was a lot easier than I thought it would be," he says.
Websites like ancestry.com and intelius.com gather loads of information about people, Thompson says. (You have to pay a subscription fee to get that info.) On top of that, there are personal blogs, Facebook pages, Twitter streams. "We're all much more knowable to strangers than we ever were in the past," Thompson says.
The beauty of the password-reset method is that even if someone has created a really strong password, it's just as easy to break in as if they'd used a totally dumb easy password. "You can have a password with all sorts of special characters and upper-case letters, and it doesn't matter at all if your password-reset question is your grandfather's name and it takes me only 30 seconds to find that on Google," Thompson says.
One thing that irks Thompson: Gaining access via the password-reset break-in doesn't really even qualify as hacking. "Most of the time when people think about hacking they think about something that is pretty sophisticated, a guy waves a magic wand and the account is available. But these are very simplistic techniques. And that makes it pretty scary. In the past the person who could pull this stuff off had to be someone with intent and have some amount of technical skills, sort of an elite hacker. Now it's just someone with intent and access to a Web browser."
The kind of software security that Thompson teaches at Columbia is the stuff of elite hackers. His course is aimed at graduate students and perhaps a few undergraduate computer-science students who are advanced enough to follow along.
But while computer scientists concern themselves with studying sophisticated hacking methods, "more and more when we look at high-profile attacks it's the simple stuff that fails," Thompson says. "For a long time we've ignored the very simple low-tech hacking approach."
Another vulnerability stems from the fact that a lot of social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter encourage users to stay logged on. "It's not like a bank where if you're idle for a few minutes you get logged off automatically," Thompson says. "The social-networking sites have a business model where there are incentives to keep you logged on as long as possible. But that creates interesting opportunities from a hack perspective."
Go away for a weekend, and all someone needs to do is get into your apartment, fire up your laptop, and they're already logged in to your accounts and can read all your mail.
A Twitter spokesman says users get logged off automatically once they finish using Twitter, unless they click the "remember me" box when they log in.
But if you do click "remember me," as many users do, how long will you remain logged in? The spokesman said he wasn't sure. He also sent a link to a page where Twitter explains how to keep your account secure.
Thompson says there are so many ways in which hackers could get into an account that "it's hard to know" what could have happened to Weiner's account. But he also points out that blaming things on hackers "can be a great scapegoat. You just say, 'Whoops, my bad, the thing got hacked.' "
Yesterday, three days after the story broke, Weiner started getting testy when reporters kept bugging him to talk about what happened. He said he wasn't going to talk about it anymore because he had more important work to do.
Apparently Weiner believes that if he just keeps dodging questions, the problem will go away. If so, he's as clueless about PR as he is about computer security.
Dan Lyons is technology editor at Newsweek and the creator of Fake Steve Jobs, the persona behind the notorious tech blog, The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs. Before joining Newsweek, Lyons spent 10 years at Forbes.